Beyond Given Knowledge: Investigation, Quest and Exploration in Modernism and the Avant-Gardes 9783110569230, 9783110561876

Beyond Given Knowledge: Investigation, Quest and Exploration in Modernism and the Avant-Gardes 9783110569230, 9783110561876

The effort to go beyond given knowledge in different domains – artistic, scientific, political, metaphysical – is a char

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Journey to the Stars: Space Exploration—Tomorrow and Beyond 9780307794024

Robert Jastrow discusses the past and future of space exploration, the cosmic mysteries that still await solution, and t

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Women and the Gift: Beyond the Given and All-Giving 0253006635, 9780253006639

Recent inquiries into the concept of the gift have been largely male-dominated and thus have ignored important aspects o

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Women and the Gift : Beyond the Given and All-Giving 9780253010339, 9780253006639

Recent inquiries into the concept of the gift have been largely male-dominated and thus have ignored important aspects o

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Indigenous Knowledge in Taiwan and Beyond 9789811541773, 9789811541780

This book situates Taiwan’s indigenous knowledge in comparative contexts across other indigenous knowledge formations. T

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The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality: The Humane Images of Modernism 9783110491081, 9783110439212

Pool was an avant-garde group that originated in 1927 in Britain and was active under this name until 1933. The group co

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The Pool Group and the Quest for Anthropological Universality: The Humane Images of Modernism 9783110491081, 9783110439212

Pool was an avant-garde group that originated in 1927 in Britain and was active under this name until 1933. The group co

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Beyond Habermas: Democracy, Knowledge, and the Public Sphere 9780857457226

During the 1960s the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas introduced the notion of a “bourgeois public sphere” in order to

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Jewellery in the Age of Modernism 1918–1940: Adornment and Beyond 9781501326790, 9781501326820, 9781501326813

Why has jewellery and body adornment often been marginalized in studies of modernist art and design? This study explores

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Ask and It is Given

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